Dissertation Coaching and Editing

Statistics Consulting and Analysis

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With more than 30 years' experience teaching at the university and high school level, Dr. Lyn Walden has helped hundreds of individuals through the dissertation process, and she has written several books to help her clients understand the confusing dissertation process. With a background in special education and educational leadership, Dr. Walden firmly believes every doctoral candidate can graduate if he or she has the proper guidance. Dr. Walden fully understands the frustrations of doctoral candidates who struggle to meet the exacting requirements of university checklists and rubrics and the conflicting instructions of different chairs, professors, committee members, IRB representatives, and the dean's reviewers.

An active member of the Professional Editor's Network, Dr. Walden is a professional dissertation editor who specializes in APA and university specific manuscript editing. She is also a member of the National Academic Advising Association and holds Six Sigma Generation IV™ certification in coaching. With her 25+ years of dissertation coaching experience, she has helped doctoral candidates from universities from all over the world. She truly understands the frustrating requirements of numerous institutions and guides numerous students a year through the dissertation maze, institutional reviews, and required approvals.

A published author, Dr. Walden holds a bachelor, a master's, a specialist, and two terminal degrees in education and a bachelor and a master's degree in psychology plus additional certification in history, humanities, writing, and life coaching. She is a retired public school teacher and adjunct professor. She is a member of numerous professional organizations and honor societies. She is also the proud grandmother of two college-age granddaughters. Dr. Walden lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her menagerie of three elderly Maine Coon cats, a Chihuahua Pug, and a Brussels Griffon.

Contact Dr. Lyn Walden for a free consultation if you need help starting or completing your dissertation, regardless of quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods. She has many years of expertise with coaching, editing, and qualitative statistical analysis. She can be reached at (470) 355-2608 Eastern Time Zone between 4-9 pm, or you can email her at drlynw@gmail.com

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Dr. Lyn Walden helps clients from the day they are assigned their first paper in college or grad school to completion of their coveted degrees. She helps students master APA and assists with research, content, and writing. As a published author, she helps with theses, capstones, executive summaries, basic research papers, and dissertations.

Dr. Walden is skilled in all phases of the dissertation process from the beginning to the final edit and oral defense. She stands beside motivated clients every step of the way from a novice grad student to the accomplished professional. She will work as hard as you do.

​"Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them."

Dr. Walden will...

Guide you through courseworkHelp you choose or refine a topicExplain statisticsExplain copyright lawsExplain mentor commentsHelp you write the purpose statementsHelp you write research questions and hypothesesCheck for alignmentHelp you write your lit reviewHelp with IRB formsPrepare you for data collection

From topic selection to oral defense...

From dreams to degree.

Dr. Walden will...

Help you find research articlesTeach you to write scholarly papersGuide you through your results and analysis sectionsTeach you APA requirementsHelp you with your PowerPointCheck your references and format them as neededHelp you design original maps graphs, charts, tables Help keep you focusedEdit your workPrepare you for oral defense

On another level but just as important, the Dr. Walden will...

Help you believe in your own abilities as a scholar Help you structure your time and energies to keep you focused Help you balance your priorities Help you fight negativity Help you deal with mentor criticisms and setbacks Remind you of deadlines and keep you on track

Dr. Lyn Walden will help you progress from a doctoral candidate or ABD to PhD, EdD, or DBA.

Personal message from Dr. Walden:

Earning a doctoral degree is dependent on more than just intellect and desire. The core requirements needed for completion include the ability to write well, think critically, follow directions, and dedicate the necessary time and energy. In a report prepared for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Conley (2007) noted, “Writing may be by far the single academic skill most closely associated with college success” (p. 4). However, I am astonished by the number of doctoral candidates who lack even rudimentary writing skills or even have an elementary grasp of statistics. Without these two skills, pouring money and time in the pursuit of a doctoral degree is a futile endeavor. As a retired teacher and professor, I work one-on-one with intelligent, ambitious, dedicated doctoral candidates who too often lack the basics of writing and statistics. Their prerequisite degrees, in spite of their deficits, convince me of their ability to complete their coveted PhD, EdD, or DBA.

I work as hard as my clients; when they quit or get lazy, I let them go. I refuse to work harder than any client does. It is not my job to coddle or pamper any doctoral candidate. My job is to remediate years of deficits and assist tenacious, determined adults realize their dreams. I do not write for my clients. I do not cross the ethical boundaries, which all doctors must honor.The condition of the nation’s education system greatly concerns me. In addition to doctoral coaching and dissertation editing, I work with brilliant qualitative and quantitative statisticians who have more than combined 60 years coaching and analysis experience and are dedicated to helping doctoral candidates through the dissertation maze. Together, we have more than 80 years' experience working with doctoral candidates, university professors, chairs, deans, committee members, and other professionals involved in the doctoral process. I also work with a skilled dissertation and APA editor. Toni Williams has edited well over 1,000 dissertations for almost 80 universities and thousands of academic, peer-reviewed journal articles and books in social science, health care, psychology, education, economics, mathematics, computer science, and physical science.

Mentoring serious doctoral candidates, regardless of age, gender, nationality, or ethnicity, remains my life work. I will retire in my next life.

A Little Advice....

Take care of yourself--mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally, metaphysically, and every other which way. Purchase Endnote, Procite, or something comparable and start a reference library. Safeguard your class notes, your personal notes, and the many drafts of your prospectus. Backup everything and prepare for crashes of hard drives, computer malfunctions, and every other worst-case scenario. Email your references and drafts of your paper to yourself at least once a month. Keep this in a separate email folder.

Go to the clouds…or the heavens with your files.

Keep a log of all your professors, but whatever you do---do not make one of them angry! Take rejection and criticism in stride. Do not personalize professor or mentor comments.

Watch what you write on social networks; you never know who is following you. You are now a professional; act like one.

This is not the time to write War and Peace. A 95 page dissertation will make you just as much of a doctor as a 250 page epistle. Save your life’s work for your next paper.

If you are a dreamer, come in. Come in! Come in!

"Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot,and then somebody steals your pencil.”

Join me and I will get you a new pencil.

Not everyone is able to devote the time or can overcome the anxiety that doctoral dissertation life brings. Time is precious. Professors, chairs, deans, and IRB review boards are unforgiving. I understand this. When are you supposed to learn to write? Well, until that day comes, I can help you: I can teach you how to write in a "scholarly" manner. I am patient, and my prices are reasonable. However, I will not do this for you. I will help you with your dissertation, class assignments, projects, essays, research papers, journal formatting, capstones, statistics, executive summaries, proposals, annotated bibliographies, theoretical frameworks, theses, interviewing, PowerPoint presentations--well, everything involved in dissertations and post doc journal publishing.

​ With my many years of experience, together, we can do great things!

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